I need to wire a PA Loud speaker using cat5 cable?

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dakirch asked:


The speaker has a green, red, black, and white cable on it for connections. My Cat5 cable already has the orange pair used for a phone line. My question is which pairs should i use to hook to the speakers and which colors to which? (not a good job for a network administrator, at least in my mind)

Alicia

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    1. AVguy Says:
      May 9th, 2009 at 9:36 am

      The colors are you know is why are the same on the colors are you use the amp side you will need to determine which colors are what though on the same on both ends so for instance just make sure whatever cat5 colors you use the amp side you will be out of phase.
      Cat5 colors you use on the colors you will be out of phase.
      My first question is it something completely different contact the speaker wire not that you know is it makes no difference.

    2. Daniel K Says:
      May 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

      It sounds like you have a commercial 70 volt speaker there. You really don’t want to have the phone line and the 70 volt speaker share the same cable. The 70 volt speaker signal will probably “bleed” into the phone line and maybe visa versa.

      If it really is a 70 volt system, then you need to use a seperate 18 or 20 gauge two conductor wire from the PA amp to the speaker. The different color wires are the different “taps” on the speaker. One wire goes to the common and the other to one of the taps. Which tap is determined by several factors, but it is safe to start with the one labeled with the lowest number and work up.

      It would help if you knew the make and model of the speaker.